New Leinster

{{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox Former subdivision | conventional_long_name = New Leinster | common_name = | native_name = | nation = the [[Colony of New Zealand]] | subdivision = Subdivision | event_pre = | date_pre = | year_pre = | event_start = | date_start = | year_start = 1840 | event1 = | date_event1 = | year_event1 = | event_end = | date_end = | year_end = 1846 | p1 = | flag_p1 = | s1 = New Munster Province | flag = | image_coat = | symbol_type = | image_map = Stewart Island-Rakiura.png | image_map_caption = The location of [[Stewart Island]] within [[New Zealand]] | capital = | government_type = | title_leader = | leader1 = | year_leader1 = | leader2 = | year_leader2 = | leader3 = | year_leader3 = | leader4 = | year_leader4 = | legislature = | political_subdiv = | membership_title1 = [[Crown colony]] | membership1 = [[Colony of New South Wales]] (1840–1841)<br />[[Colony of New Zealand]] (1841–1846) | stat_year1 = 1840 | stat_area1 = 174774 | stat_pop1 = | stat_year2 = | stat_area2 = | stat_pop2 = | stat_year3 = | stat_area3 = | stat_pop3 = }} '''New Leinster''' was a name given to [[Stewart Island]] in the [[royal charter]] of November 1840, which stated the division of [[New Zealand]] into three parts. The division only held a geographic significance. In the [[New Zealand Constitution Act 1846]], the area known as New Leinster was incorporated into the previously established [[New Munster Province]]. It was named after [[Leinster]], one of the [[provinces of Ireland]].

== History == Following the [[Treaty of Waitangi]], signed on 6 February 1840, [[New Zealand]] became a colony of the [[British Empire]], initially administrated as part of the [[Colony of New South Wales]]. In the [[royal charter]] of November 1840, New Zealand was divided into three divisions: [[New Ulster Province|New Ulster]], [[New Munster Province|New Munster]], and New Leinster. These divisions held geographic but not [[administration (government)|administrative]] significance.<ref name ="hocken"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/provinces|title=An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand – New Leinster, New Munster, and New Ulster|date=1966|access-date=25 September 2020}}</ref> The names of the regions were created by governor [[William Hobson]], who named them after the corresponding [[provinces of Ireland]], with New Leinster being named after the province of [[Leinster]].<ref name = "McKinnon 2009">{{cite web|author=Malcolm McKinnon|title=Place names – Naming the country and the main islands|publisher=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand|date=November 2009|url=http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/place-names/1|accessdate= 5 February 2011}}</ref> The [[Colony of New Zealand]] became a [[crown colony]] of the British Empire on 3 May 1841.<ref name ="hocken">{{cite web|url=http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/pdf/Govt%20Publications%20Guide.pdf|title=Reference Guide Government Publications at the Hocken Collections|accessdate=5 February 2011|publisher=Hocken Library|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724123114/http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/pdf/Govt%20Publications%20Guide.pdf|archive-date=24 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[New Zealand Constitution Act 1846]] divided New Zealand into two [[Provinces of New Zealand|provinces]], [[New Ulster Province|New Ulster]], and [[New Munster Province|New Munster]], and the area known as New Leinster was then incorporated into the province of New Munster.<ref name ="hocken"/>

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[[Category:Former subdivisions of New Zealand]] [[Category:Stewart Island]] [[Category:States and territories established in 1840]] [[Category:1840 establishments in New Zealand]] [[Category:States and territories disestablished in 1846]] [[Category:History of the Southland Region]] [[Category:1846 disestablishments in New Zealand]]